Ipecification



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llli i 0. E. WESTGOTT.

EAR RING.

Patented June 30, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

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EBPECIPICATION l'mmiug part of Letters Patent; No. 320,991, dated June 30, 1885.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LCHARLES E. \Vns'reo'r'r, of the city and county of Provideneeanul State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Rankings; andldo here by declare the following specification, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a description thereof lhisinventionconsistsin an ear-ring having its shank or wire provided with a cireumterential shoulder, and having a back or fastening member provided with a hole of less size than that portion of the shank immediately forward ofsaid S]]Oltltl0l,[tlltl with spring-arms radiating from said hole and integral with the material of the back member, whereby said member may be applied to and withdrawn from the shank, and by the engagement ofits spring'arms with the shoulder on the shank hold the ear-ring in place.

It also consists in making that part of the shank between the shoulder and its free end of such length that when the back or fastening member is in place said free end will engage the interior back wall of said member and prevent it from materially eanting downward. as will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents in perspective an ear-ring embodying the invention, the back or fastening I]lt3l11 her being detached. Fig. 2 shows aside view otthe same with the fastening member in place. Fig. 8 represents the same, partially in section. Fig. 4 represents a side view of an earring having a curved shank with the fastening member in place.

A is the shank or wire of theear-ring,whieh may be straight, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or of other form, as shown in Fig. 4.

To one end of the shank ahead, 13, of any preferred form, is secured, and the shank is furnished with a groove or depression which produces a circumferential shoulder, a. The back or fastening member C is shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 in the shape of a hollow ball. This member has a hole, 0, of less size than that part of the shank immediately forward of the shoulder a, and is slilted to produce spring arms 0, which radiate from the hole and allow the hole to expand when the member is applied to and removed from the shank, and by engagement with the shoulder (1 hold said member locked on the shank.

The length of the shank A between its shout der a and its free end is pret'erabiy such that when the member-U is locked in place thei'ree end of the shank will be in contact with the interior back wall of said member,as shown in Fig. 3, and thereby prevent the member from materially eanting downward, as will be read ily understood.

The member (kinstead of being in the form of a ball, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, may be of other forms, such, for inst ance,as shown in Fig. t.

The means for fastening the ea r-ring in place are simple and inexpensive in construction and effective in action.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, an earring having its shank or wire provided with a circumferential shoulder, a, and a fastening member, (1, having a hole, 0, of less diameter than that portion of the shank immediately forward of said shoulder, and springarms a integral with the material of the fast cning member and radiating from the hole therein, substantiaily as set forth.

2. The eombinatiomwith the fastening memher 0, having an expansible hole, 0, in its wall or body, and integral spring-arms c',radiating from said hole, of the shank A, having a circmnfercntial shoulder, a, and of such length between said shoulder and its free end that said end will engage the interior back wallet" the fastening member when thelatter isloeked in place on the shank, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES E. \VESTCOT'I.

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